Robert Archibald: A pioneer of tropical medicine in the Sudan: "I feel my heart is in that country and my work too" [] (Archibald, writing about being away from the Sudan during the First World War).

http://www.sudanjp.org 77 Robert George Archibald was born in India on July 4, 1880. He graduated from Edinburgh with M.B., Ch.B. in 1902. After holding a number of resident hospital appointments in Britain, he joined the R.A.M.C. in 1906 winning the prize in pathology at the Army Medical College at Milbank in that year. He worked for one year in Colonel (later Sir) William Leishman’s laboratory under his personal supervision. In 1907 he joined the Sleeping Sickness Commission in Uganda headed by Colonel (later Sir) David Bruce. After spending an eventful period in Uganda, he was transferred to Sudan in 1908 as regimental medical officer and at the same time he held the post of Assistant Bacteriologist and Pathologist in the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories in Khartoum (WTRLK) under Andrew Balfour [2].